Photo-z Workshop for Large Surveys 2017

Scientific Rationale

Photometric redshift is a classical technique to infer redshifts of objects using photometric data, but its importance has been rapidly increasing in recent years. On-going/Up-coming large imaging surveys such as DES, Euclid, KiDS, HSC, LSST and WFIRST all rely heavily on photometric redshifts. However, it is a big challenge to achieve the required photometric redshift accuracy for various science cases, especially weak-lensing cosmology. It is a common challenge to all the surveys, and the Photo-z Workshop for Large Surveys 2017 offers an opportunity for people involved in photometric redshift efforts to get together, share problems, and join forces to address them together.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. The astronomy department is located on a hill, Aobayama, and is easily accessible from the Sendai city center by subway. The workshop will be held at the Aoba Hall, located on the ground floor of the Science Complex C in this map. Detailed access information is here. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask Masayuki (who used to live in Sendai). Also, check out a very nice website about Sendai.

Participants

The participant list will be updated as we receive registrations.

Name

Affilliation

Survey Involved

Jean Coupon

University of Geneva

Euclid, HSC

Hendrik Hildebrandt

Arglander-Insitut für Astronomie, University of Bonn

Euclid, KiDS

Stéphane Paltani

University of Geneva

Euclid

Audrey Galametz

MPE

Euclid

Atsushi J. Nishizawa

Nagoya University

HSC

Daniel Masters

Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, Caltech

Euclid, WFIRST

Valeria Amaro

University of Naples Federico II

Euclid, KiDS

Maciej Bilicki

Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands

KiDS

Christopher Morrison

University of Washington

KiDS, LSST

Masayuki Tanaka

NAOJ

HSC

Daniel Stern

JPL/Caltech

Euclid

Will Hartley

UCL

Euclid, LSST, DES

Filipe Abdalla

UCL

DES

Massimo Brescia

INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte

Euclid, KiDS

Stefano Cavuoti

University of Naples Federico II

Euclid, KiDS, LSST

Scottez

Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris

Euclid

Konrad Kuijken

Leiden Observatory

KiDS, Euclid

Gary Bernstein

University of Pennsylvania

DES

Sam Schmidt

UC Davis

LSST

Alex Malz

New York University

LSST

Ramon Miquel

IFAE Barcelona

DES, Euclid, LSST

Jun Nakano

Kanazawa Institute of Technology

HSC

Zahra Gomes

University of Oxford

Euclid, LSST

Peter Capak

Caltech

Euclid, HSC, WFIRST

Matt Jarvis

Oxford

Euclid, LSST

Bahram Mobasher

UC Riverside

Euclid

Francisco Castander

ICE, IEEC-CSIC

DES, Euclid, LSST, PAU

Masahiro Takada

Kavli IPMU

HSC

Masamune Oguri

Univ of Tokyo

HSC

Banquet

The banquet on Wednesday will be in down-town Sendai. Details will be announced later. If you signed up for banquet, we will ask you to pay 5,000JPY(faculty members and post-docs) or 3,000JPY(students) at the registration desk.

Accommodation

Please book a hotel by yourself. The SOC/LOC did not realize until recently that there is a local festival on the 20th and 21st (http://www.aoba-matsuri.com/ – Japanese page only). It seems that there are not many available rooms left, especially over the weekend. Please book early! Here are a few suggestions from the LOC.
Metropolitan hotelhttp://www.sendaimetropolitan.jp/